On Thursday 30 November 2006 21:29, M Harris wrote:
On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
Novell's head of kernel development is Greg Kroah-Hartman.
Now we're getting someplace...
... this is what I am really getting at... and I genuinely am seeking knowledge; what does it mean to be head of kernel development at Novell?
It means being in charge of the team that does kernel development at SUSE Linux Products GmbH. This means, aside from the normal administration things all managers have to suffer through, being in charge of fixing kernel related bugs in the SUSE kernel. For a closer job description, you'd have to ask Greg himself
Is the kernel that ships with Suse the "official" kernel that I can download from the official site unmodified <?> or, is it modified by kernel development at Novell?
Yes it's modified. The goal is to have a version as close to kernel.org as possible, but the kernel version is frozen at the time of release. For example, SLES 9 shipped with kernel 2.6.5. Since that time there have been numerous bug fixes in the kernel.org kernel, and the ones relevant to the SLES 9 kernel get backported Also, there are drivers being maintained outside kernel.org, and they get patched when there are bugs or other problems All differences are kept as separate patch files in the src rpm, along with clear indications of which bug numbers they fix
Folks, that's a lot of lines of code... what I want to know is how many of them were coded (patched) by Novell kernel development?
Browse through the patch files in the src rpm. They are all kept separate and each patch is reasonably small and self contained (so the developers can have an easier time deciding if a patch is good or not)
What do those patches do?
Feel free to cross reference the bug numbers with the entries in bugzilla.novell.com
How many of those patches, or future patches, will M$ control behind the scenes...
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